artworldTributes
Saturday, November 14th, 2020
This 2014 article on Matt Freedman is offered as tribute to the artist who died recently ...
Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
Instigator of Williamsburg’s Sideshow Nation, an annual show with hundreds of artists ...
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Despite her range, Hafif was frequently allied with monochrome painters ...

Monday, April 16th, 2018

Dorothy Pearlstein, 1928 to 2018

A remarkable painter and female role model remembered by Desirée Alvarez, a longtime model of her husband, Philip Pearlstein

Francisco de Goya, Leave it all to Providence (Dejalo todo a la probidencia), 1816-20. Black ink and gray wash, Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum
Friday, January 5th, 2018

Eugene Thaw in his Own Words: The late collector and philanthropist interviewed in 1996

An exhibition of his bequests closes at the Morgan Library January 7

John Ashbery, A Dream Of Heroes, 2015. Mixed Media Collage, 15-3/4 X 20-1/2 inches.
Sunday, September 17th, 2017

“One Thing Follows Another”: John Ashbery, Art Critic

He made light of his “violon d’Ingres,” but with Ashbery’s death we lost a great art critic

Martin Naylor, 1944-2016
Sunday, March 5th, 2017

Angry Young Man: Martin Naylor, 1944 to 2016

A maverick British sculptor whose achievements are coming back into perspective

Stanley Lewis, Westport Train Station with Figures, 2009. Ink on paper, 13 x 23 inches. The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection. Currently on view in the exhibition, Stanley Lewis: The Way Things Are at the New York Studio School through November 13
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

Generosity of Eye: William Louis-Dreyfus, 1932 to 1984

Countless individuals, institutions, and causes lost a remarkable and irreplaceable friend earlier this fall with the passing of collector and philanthropist William Louis-Dreyfus. He literally transformed the lives of artists whose works he amassed. A stalwart campaigner for social justice, he pioneered ways of fusing his twin passions for art and for serving the underprivileged … Continued

John Newman, Blue Ribbon Teardrop, 2008. Wood burl, blown glass, acrylic paint on acqua resin, wood putty, Japanese paper, papier mache, Foamcore, armature wire, string, 14-1/2 x 15-1/2 x 9 inches. The Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

Generosity of Eye: William Louis-Dreyfus, 1932 to 1984

Countless individuals, institutions, and causes lost a remarkable and irreplaceable friend earlier this fall with his passing

Walter Darby Bannard, Orange Blacksides, 1959. Oil on canvas, 60 x 67-1/2 inches. Courtesy of Berry Campbell
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

Modernism isn’t a style, he insisted, it’s a working attitude. Walter Darby Bannard, 1934 to 2016

The artist passed on the eve of a show of new work, at Berry Campbell through November 12

a work by Ellen Rand, details to follow
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

A Passionate, Upbeat Advocate: Ellen Rand, Artist and Gallerist, 1941-2016

Founder of 101 Gallery in Brooklyn, who died this summer

An etching rom "Gloria, twenty-eight poems by Bill Berkson with twenty-five etchings by Alex Katz", Arion Press, 2005
Friday, June 24th, 2016

Living As Variously As Possible: Bill Berkson, 1939-2016

a tribute to the poet and art critic who died June 16

Thursday, May 26th, 2016

The Journey of Life is Circular: Fred Holland, 1951 to 2016

simple, often organic materials intertwined personal memories with his African American heritage